BOSTON — State health officials are reporting another 17 confirmed or probable cases of vaping-associated lung injury to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
That brings the total number of Massachusetts cases reported to the CDC by Wednesday to 46 - 16 confirmed and 30 probable.
To date, the state has received 184 reports of suspected vaping-associated lung injury.
Twenty-one were under 30 and 11 were age 50 or above.
Of the 46 cases reported to the CDC, 27 were in women and 19 in men. Forty were hospitalized. One, a woman in her 60s, died.
On Tuesday, Gov. Charlie Baker appealed a judge's ruling that would lift his four-month ban on the sale of nicotine vaping products unless the administration holds a public hearing.